Word: leukemias
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...that come with respectable finishes. But Norman continues to take enormous gambles going for the win, and he has shown class in winning as well as losing. After coming from four strokes back to win the Heritage Classic last spring, he gave his trophy to Jamie Hutton, a young leukemia patient he had invited to accompany him during play. The gesture so moved tournament officials and television announcers that for a moment none of them could speak...
Eliot House started its work with the Jimmy Fund when John M. Petkevich '71, a skater, injured himself while he was a junior. During his stay in the hospital, Petkevich, an Eliot resident, encountered some children who were being treated for leukemia. He then decided to help the Dana Farber Institute by organizing a show where his skating friends would perform to raise money for the research center...
...Charles Zinser, 38, was preoccupied, unmindful of the glorious surroundings. Zinser recalled how beginning in 1984 he had rented a vegetable garden near the plant. He often took his two young sons along as he worked. Two years later, both were found to have cancer. Samuel, then eight, had leukemia, and Louis, two, had part of a leg amputated...
...since 1945, found that the genes of healthy cells process information differently from those of cancerous cells and disease-causing bacteria and viruses. By targeting these cells and microbes with drugs that interfere with replication, they established an approach that led to new drug therapies for many diseases, including leukemia and malaria. In 1957 Elion and Hitchings developed the drug, azathioprine, that controlled rejection in organ transplants. That led to the development of acyclovir for the treatment of herpes and AZT, the only drug approved by the Federal Government for AIDS...
...Americans' research also led to the development of drugs for the treatment of leukemia and malaria and to the creation of medicines designed to fight the rejection of transplanted organs, the awarding committee said...